On Fashions Home, and Beauty
Elisabeth Ann Says
"MILLINERY menu" is an appropriate de-1
scription for this season's hats since pro- Ales will be changing with styles as varied as hors d'oeuvre-with many of the same colour- ings, including chutney green, beet-red, and mushroom brown, with a "dnsh" of burgundy red, and blackberry wine.
The "mayonnaise" is supplied in varieties of tulle and spotted net, fishnet and feathers, with a few "stickpinn" bonsting vegetable or fruit "heads"--it the idea of that little rlb of metal pierced through your side hair appeals to you.
You can look either extremely young, very sophlati ented, or frankly aged--the decision is on your own head.
YOUTH AND AGE
HE "extremely young" huts are poke-bonnet, i
"off-the-face
velvet softened by veiling of tulle (not a halo).
Fur bonnets and turbans-brandtail beaver and nutrin-are taking popularity honours. alightly tipped over one brow.
YOU ARE AS
OLD AS
YOUR FEET
Say Diana Wayne
You never saw so many toes in all your
life as this summer. Protruding Wear these through town shoes, brazening through The "sophisticated" are dolls hats and miniature tri-beach sandals, wriggling unashamed in the comes which dip forward on the top of the new sand Edwardian coiff and hold to the head by a tie of velvet | And-have you noticed it ?-you always look
at the back. Also the hats with hour-glass crowns and flat-roof tops which go silm at the waist half-way down to the brim. And the high tez-tipped with feathers and saved from severity by a soft swathe of the felt round the head.
twice.
Perhaps it is because for nine months of the year feet live in such complete seclusion. When they do emerge they need to be impeccable.
Home Pedicure
The "frankly ageing" hats are the new pill-box which sharpens the most attractive of facial features; the turban; ond the forward beret which faunches forwurd over the brows, stays at that level and lifts off one side of the head. Also small mushrooms-shapes which shoot | upward Inte columns of felt six to eight inches high A THOROUGII home pedicure is the first step. from the head.
And by pedicure I don't mean just varnish,
POLICE PADS
you to file the
Cake-Making Tips
making any plain white
with the single exception of a spongo cake-always add a teaspoonful of marmalade. Besides helping the flavour, this prevents the cake from drying up.
It is a good plan to leave a vanilla bean in the sugar which is to be uted for cake-making. The flavour thus obtained Je delicious,
you
make shortbread with
margarine, always add nut of lord, WHEN making up a calorie and the flavour will be improved.
menu, don't disregard In the case of a rich fruit cake, |fruit as representing mainly water.some care must be taken to prevent Here are details of fruit in season: the irult falling to the bottom of the A 2-dz apple represents 2011⁄2 tin during baking, An excellent calories. A fresh peach adda 22% plan consists of wanning the fruit in calories to your meal. A fresh peor the oven before adding. The four jumps to
27 calories-stewed. It also should be heated, as flour, has n works out slightly less.
tendency to absorb moisture if it has been in stock for any length of Ume.
Fresh pineapple (a 14oz. alice), a Victoria plum, n banana, P joz. alewed fig, and 1 ounce of grapes list at 2015 calories. A ripe greengage gives 41 calories and an orange 224 calorica.
and
An adequate, nourishing. healthful dally diet for family needs should include these items:
1 pint of milk (a child needs 1% pints),
0 full slices of breath,
1 egg,
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cercal.
potato,
Never amit to sieve the flour. In order to ensure the lightness of a cake, a chef often goes the length of passing the flour through his sleve three times in quick succession.
When making a Scotch currant ban, rub a generous plece of butter into the flour which used for bind- ing the fruit interior. If this is done, the fruit will remain soft and juicy
been even after the cake has for months.
cut
In spite of precautions, a cake will sometimes be soft and sodden in the centre. One certain way of prevent-
2 tablespoonfuls of an unrefined ing this is to procure a tin with
- 2oz. butter,
I tablespoonful barbados sugar. These essentials give you calcium, with vitamins phosporous and Iron
A, B, D and G).
In addition you need, unless on special diet, three ounces of ment or sh to provide protein and Vitamin E, four ounces of green vegetables, for mineral salts and bulk, and three ounces of fresh fruit to give you Vitamin C.
If your medicul man has prescribed more of any one of these vitamins or minerul salts. Increase the quantity beverage and cut of that food or down on bulk.
For additional Iron, especially in I mean a basin of warm, soapy water, a bottle of oily cuticle remover, a nail-white pencil, and allemi, increase the daily quanti
ties of liver, kidney, oysters and the other adjuncts of a first-class manicure, dried peas, spinach, prunes and dried
You use file differently, of course. A profes-apricots. FRESHEST in beauty cleansers are nail polish-
remover pads, packed in glass jars-one pational chiropodist would tell does service for fugers and thumbs of both hands. Saves toenails straight across; but a gentle curve, fol- a host of mistakes in putting down an acetone-soaked and lowing the top of the toe, makes a more attractive of cottonwool on a table, where it sticks immediately compromise. and spoils the surface, or dropping it onto a dress from which It is rarely removable.
Hiccough-And How To Cure It
By Dr. M. MENZIES CAMPBELL
HICCOUCH, fortunately rarely serious, in due
to spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, the muscular division between chest and abdomen, necessitating a quick breath.
Such a contraction is caused by Irritation of the nerve supplying the diaphragm-drinking too much cold water, especially If gulped; excessive alcohol; over-distended stomach; bolting food; in- digestion; fright; or uproarious laughter.
It is very inadvisable to eat anything while the hiccough inst.
Successful modes of treatment are:
Hold the breath for short time. Fill the mouth with water, tightly hold the nose and breath for at least a minute, afterwards swallow. Grip the tongue with u hankerchief, and pull forwards. Slap the back,
If possible, sufferer should te fat on tils back with knees drawn up, and îngers pressed well inwards and upwards just below the front ribs,
Trent Indigestion by a quarter of a teaspoonful of baking soda or Gregory powder in hajt s tumbler of worm water.
When the stomach is uncomfortably distended, an emetic, such as mustard and water, affords relief.
With a baby it is usually sufficient to change his position, and massage the "tummy" or apply n hot fomentation.
If hiccough
recurs frequently, regulate the daily habits relating to food, constipation, and so forth.
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Varnish
IODINE
SLUGGISHI action of the thyroid gland is due often to lack of iodine in the system. Fish and shellfish
аге excellent sources of lodine.
Water Is, of course, one of those VARNISH is a matter between you and your regulation items essential to proper conscience. Can your toes take it? Re-digestion and body temperature. member they need to be nicely kept for pink The more bodily energy used up, the {varnish definitely pretty for nasturtium, and per-more sugar, starches
necessary.
fect for scarlet,
But if your feet are not your fortune you'll ponder the possibilities of the more discreet "light rusts" and "corals" and the quieter rose pinks.
and fats are
EYE WORK
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hole in the centre. This allows the heat to penetrate evenly, and the re- sultant cake, which is in the form enke fired in one of these tins will of a ring, is very ornamental indeed, do in about half the usual thne,
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Cheese Savoury Harebit
AB
IFERE is a variation of Welsh known
"scrap bit," that you can try next time
of you have porno scraps
Liry bread to be disposed of.
Cut them into pieces as neatly as possible, and roughly the same sire. and arrange them in fireproof dish. Cover them with a layer of grated cheese, and pour over the whole a thick walle sauce. A hard-boiled egg
the can be added to
sauce แ liked.
Gale a little cheese over
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the
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Useful Tea Leaves
FEW people realise how wasteful
they are when they throw away, sometimes three or four times a day. EYE exercises are prescribed the contents of a tea pot. Instead of
doing this, አነጋ a modern relief for should be strained and kept in one cyc-strain.
receptacle and the leaves dried and Even a squlat can now be cured
the remaining
liquid
Toenails, like fingernails take their varnish all the better for a buffing with paste polish firat, and, being short, should be coloured right from by means of these exercises, though kept in another, for both can be put the cuticle up to the tip.
Massage
HERE'S a simple treatment for your town feet.
Soak your feet in warm soupy water to which you have added a plne bath-tablet and give them a Kentle, thorough scrubbing with a friction-brush or a rough face flannel.
Then turn on the two bath taps and rinse them first in hat and then in cold water, repeating several times until
you can feel them tingle.. When they are dry massage in a little cream-hand
cream cream or cold nourishes the skin,
of
the or anything that sooths and
Knead if well, in, with firm pressure between the bones of the Instep and the ball of the fool. Then smooth off with tissues and rub the feet gently with tollet vinegar, or cau de Cologne.
Fluff extravagantly with talcum, silp into your stockings and shoes again.
rays.
without harming the sight.
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Expert's Job BLACKBERRIES
DEAL foot troubles are an expert's job, of course, and
uses. several it may take several months before the eyes are quite normal.
For instance, the ten and leaves to- for removing gether are excellent People who have worn spectacles the smell of fish or onions from a for years, especially for short sight, frying-pan. For this purpose heat are now able to dispense with them up the tea and leaves in the pan, after a series of special
exercises which should be well rinsed and the regular use of curative wards. Also, hot tea poured down eye lotion.
sink or drain prevents smell and Distended pupils do not signify a may be done with advantage tivo or need for glasses, in all cases..
Sun glare, too much driving in three times weekly especially during
warm weather. strong light, and early morning rend- Ten, carefully strained and alight- ink, can cause the distension, since ly warmed, makes a plendid cleaner light enters contracts of though the pupil which for polished furniture. When spong
or expands to the brillanceed with it and polished afterwards
with a Pupils should not be distended with woods renew their gloss wonderfully. soft dry cloth, varnished eye-drops for beautifying purposes. And not only la ten good for wood
Frequent use of an eye-bath will but equally so for glass, such cleanse, refresh and strengthen the window pauca and mirrors. muscles of the eyes so that they op-
A sponging with strong pear larger und more brilliant-news the freshness of
black materials, Silk above all regains its
F sheen, and if a touch of sugar
add- ed, its suffness also. Tea leav
leaves are good for other materials. It was
was not
days of vacuum cleaners, carpets
with tea leaves before brushing, but Crush the fruit thoroughly, place also to bring up the colour of the
and squeeze out carpet.
A pad of plain fint soaked in cold lemon. (Allow about three tea and laid on the eyes relieves them quarts of fully-ripe berries to yield greatly, taking away aches and tired- two pints of juice.)
ness. It is good, too, as a rinse for For this quantity allow three and, dark hair, and when used as a hair a balk
pounds of sugar
une tonic for dark hair prevents prema- bottle of certo, which makes up any ture greyness.
elin deficiency. pectin
Ten is a valuable fertiliser. Measure GLOT and Jufce into Plants, above all ferns and palms, large pan and sur. Bring to the boll, thrive better if watered with a little adding certo while stirring. Then tea once a week, or it a few tea bring to full fol) and bell hard for leaves are mixed with their soil. If half a minute. Remove from stove, you have a garden, tea leaves should skim and pour quickly. This should be forked lightly into the ground. supply about six pound jars.
A. X
WHEN making blackberry unly to lay the dust that, before the the sooner you have them cleared up the better for the preparation of the juice.
success by and rugs were liberally besprinkled
your good looks.
Jelly ensure
But for an all-round, everyday fool exercise it's hard in a jelly cloth to beat running up and down states on tip-toe. This juice, then add the strained juice of
alims the ankles too.
Another good movement is to put a Turkish towel on the floor and work your toes to gather it up in folds under your feet. (Or, on the beatli, work the sand up into little piles in the same way.)
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